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Nguyen Phu Trong, Powerful Vietnamese Leader, Is Dead at 80
Known for his “blazing furnace” anticorruption campaign, Mr. Trong consolidated power in one of the world’s few remaining Communist dictatorships.
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Real Estate
You Like Wine? Try Planting a Vineyard at Home.
People plant grapevines in their backyards to get a rural aesthetic or for the love of wine itself, or even…
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Real Estate
$800,000 Homes in Venice
A duplex near the Rialto Bridge, a one-bedroom in the Castello district, and a compact house on the island of…
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Books
Bob Newhart Holds Up.
He basically invented the stand-up special in 1960 and continued to be a source of comic brilliance until his final…
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Books
To Sell Prized Paintings, a University Proclaims They’re Not ‘Conservative’
Valparaiso University is arguing it should never have acquired two paintings, including a Georgia O’Keeffe, in the 1960s. It hopes…
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Books
These Sculptures Changed What Art Could Be, Then Changed Themselves
Eva Hesse’s latex and fiberglass pieces from the late 1960s have been reunited from five institutions. Their rapid deterioration makes…
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Books
‘The Fortress’: A Norwegian Export About the Danger of Closed Borders
Both sociopolitical thriller and parable, this Viaplay series presents a future that can feel uncomfortably plausible.
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World
Zelensky Becomes First Foreign Leader to Visit U.K. Cabinet Since Clinton
President Volodymyr Zelensky briefed Keir Starmer’s top team in an appearance designed to showcase Britain’s steadfast support for Ukraine in…
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World
Can New York City Ever Win Its War Against Rats?
Checking in with New York’s rat czar and the progress she has made in reducing the city’s rodent population.
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World
She Danced Naked at Woodstock. She Dated Serpico. At 93, She’s Not Done.
Betty Gordon is perhaps the world’s most unlikely first-time children’s book author. For decades she lived at the center of…